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Favorite Childhood Films

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6.3

5.7

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)

Director: William Sterling
Story: Lewis Carroll
Starring:Fiona Fullerton, Michael Jayston, Hywel Bennett, Michael Crawford, Ralph Richardson, Peter Bull, Patsy Rowlands, Roy Kinnear, Robert Helpmann, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore, Dennis Waterman, Ray Brooks, Richard Warwick, Dennis Price, Flora Robson, Rodney Bewes, Spike Milligan and Michael Hordern

A girl named Alice falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures.

kathy's rating:

3122

7.3

7.4

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske
Starring: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn and Sterling Holloway

Alice becomes bored and her mind starts to wander. She sees a white rabbit who appears to be in a hurry. She chases it into its burrow and then a most bizarre series of adventures begins.

kathy's rating:

The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)

Director: Lionel Jeffries
Starring: Laurence Naismith, Graham Crowden, Dorothy Alison and Benjamin Smith

A very old and mysterious solicitor, Mr. Blunden, visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors.

One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who had died in the mansion nearly a hundred years previously. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do?

kathy's rating:

470

6.8

7.2

Animal Farm (1954)

Directors: John Halas and Joy Batchelor
Based on the novel by George Orwell
Starring (voices): Gordon Heath and Maurice Denham

A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong when corrupt pigs hijack it for their personal gain.

kathy's rating:

2056

6.8

7.1

The Aristocats (1970)

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring (voices): Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, Paul Winchell, Lord Tim Hudson, Vito Scotti and Thurl Ravenscroft

With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.

kathy's rating:

5.1

At the Earth's Core (1976)

Director: Kevin Connor
Starring: Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro and Cy Grant

A Victorian era scientist and his assistant take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic bird and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.

kathy's rating:

3008

6.9

7.3

Bambi (1942)

Directors: Norman Wright, Paul Satterfield, Bill Roberts, Graham Heid, David Hand, Samuel Armstrong and James Algar
Story: Felix Salten
Starring (voices): Donnie Dunagan, Cammie King Conlon, Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Peter Behn, Margaret Lee, John Sutherland, Sam Edwards, Tim Davis, Sterling Holloway, Clarence Nash, Thelma Boardman, Mary Lansing, Ann Gillis, Thelma Hubbard and Fred Shields

A young deer is hailed as the 'Prince of the Forest' at his birth. As Bambi grows, he makes friends with the other animals of the forest, learns the skills needed to survive, and even finds love. One day, however, the hunters come and Bambi must learn to be as brave as his father if he is to lead the other deer to safety.

kathy's rating:

291

5.5

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, Natalie Trundy, Paul Williams, Austin Stoker and Noah Keen

Ten years after conquering the Earth, ape leader Caesar wants the ruling apes and enslaved humans to live in peace. But warring factions of apes led by a militant gorilla general, as well as various human groups, threaten the stability.

kathy's rating:

530

6.9

7.1

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall and Sam Jaffe

Three children are evacuated from their London home to avoid the German bombing raids of World War II and sent to live in the English countryside with an apprentice witch. The kids get her to use magic to take them and a con-man for a ride on a magic bed, and they contribute to the war effort while they're at it.

kathy's rating:

6.9

Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette and Elsa Lanchester

The famous pirate's ghost returns to our time. Blackbeard has been cursed by his last wife, who was a notorious witch, so that he will never die. The only way to "break" the curse is to do (for once in his life) a good act. Is the famous pirate able to do something good?

kathy's rating:

7.4

5.5

Black Beauty (1971)

Director: James Hill
Based on the novel by Anna Sewell
Starring: Mark Lester, Walter Slezak, Peter Lee Lawrence, Uschi Glas, Patrick Mower, John Nettleton, Maria Rohm and Eddie Golden

When farmer Evan's mare has a black colt, he promises the young horse to his son Joe. The youngster and colt, named Black Beauty, enjoy growing up as playmates. However, once the squire who owns Evan's farm dies, his mean heir, who abuses animals, turns the screws on Evans until he is forced to leave his farm. He then loses Black Beauty in a card game so the now full-grown stallion ends up in the Hackenschmidt circus. But Joe is desperate to get him back.

kathy's rating:

732

6.4

The Black Cauldron (1985)

Directors: Ted Berman and Richard Rich
Starring (voices): Grant Bardsley, Freddie Jones, Susan Sheridan and Nigel Hawthorne

A young boy and a bunch of misfit friends embark on a quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate power before a diabolical tyrant can.

kathy's rating:

217

6.6

6.8

Bugsy Malone

Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster, John Cassisi, Martin Lev and Dexter Fletcher

The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all child cast.

kathy's rating:

7.5

The Bushbaby (1969)

Director: John Trent
Starring: Margaret Brooks, Louis Gossett Jr., Donald Houston, Laurence Naismith, Marne Maitland, Geoffrey Bayldon, Jack Gwillim and Noel Howlett

The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her from the one thing she loves most, a pet bushbaby.

Fearing what the future holds she decides to set the pet free but while doing so misses the boat back to England. After meeting up with a friendly native they try to resolve the situation together.

Things take a turn for the worse when it is falsely reported that the native has kidnapped her, thus putting a price on his head.

kathy's rating:

6.8

Candleshoe (1977)

Director: Norman Tokar
Starring: Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes and Leo McKern

A small time crook recruits American street urchin and orphan Casey Brown to fly to England and pretend to be the long-lost grand-daughter of Lady St. Edmund and thereby discover the location of the hoard of pirate treasure reputed to be hidden somewhere on Lady St Edmund's Candleshoe estate.

kathy's rating:

6.7

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

Director: James Hill
Starring: Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman, Luciana Paluzzi and Bill Fraser

Shipwreck survivors are rescued and taken captive to an undersea city ruled by an authoritarian genius who is angry at humanity.

kathy's rating:

491

6.9

Charlotte's Web (1973)

Directors: Iwao Takamoto and Charles A. Nichols
Story: E.B. White
Starring (voices): Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Henry Gibson, Rex Allen, Martha Scott, Dave Madden, Donny Bonaduce, Don Messick, Herb Vigran and Agnes Moorehead

A spider with a flair for promotion pledges to save a young pig from slaughter.

kathy's rating:

499

6.8

6.9

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Director: Ken Hughes
Based on the novel by Ian Fleming
Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Anne Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gerte Frobe, Anna Quayle, James Robertson-Justice, Robert Helpmann and Benny Hill

An eccentric inventor around the turn of the century, with nimble fingers and a unique way of looking at the world, invents for his children a magic car that floats and flies. Or does he?

kathy's rating:

3183

7.3

Cinderella (1950)

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske
Starring (voices): Ilene Woods, James MacDonald, Eleanor Audley and Verna Felton

When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother.

kathy's rating:

544

6.7

6.9

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Director: Desmond Davis
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Ursula Andress, Susan Fleetwood, Pat Roach and Maggie Smith

A film adaption of the myth of Perseus and his quest to battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster to save the Princess Andromeda.

kathy's rating:

The 'Copter Kids

Director: Ronald Spencer
Starring: Derek Fowlds, Sophie Ward, Kate Dorning, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Sophie Neville, Vic Armstrong, Michael Balfour, Marc Boyle and Edward Burnham

Helicopter pilots help children to track down cattle rustlers.

kathy's rating:

7.1

Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966)...

Director: Gordon Flemyng
Starring: Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks, Philip Madoc, Roberta Tovey, Jill Curzon and Andrew Keir

The Daleks' fiendish plot in 2150 against Earth and its people is foiled when Dr. Who and friends arrive from the 20th century and figure it out.

kathy's rating:

5.7

The Devil and Max Devlin

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
Starring: Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Julie Budd and Susan Anspach

When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to hell. But the devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell him their souls in the next two months, he may stay on earth. Max accepts, and returns to earth, equipped with special powers. However his task is harder than expected, especially when 7 years old Tobi demands that he marry his mother.

kathy's rating:

5.5

5.2

Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World (1973)

Director: Joseph McGrath
Starring: Jim Dale, Spike Milligan, Angela Douglas and John Bluthal

Digby, an old English sheepdog, consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he grows to a gigantic size!

kathy's rating:

311

5.6

6.2

Doctor Dolittle (1967)

Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley and Richard Attenborough

Doctor Dolittle is a world-renowned veterinarian who speaks a wide array of animal languages. He sets off from his home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. In so doing, he and his friends meet such exotic creatures as the Pushme-Pullyu and the Giant Moon Moth.

kathy's rating:

6.9

5.8

Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)

Director: Gordon Flemyng
Starring: Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden and Roberta Tovey

An eccentric inventor and his companions travel in his TARDIS to the Planet Skaro and battle the evil menace of the Daleks.

kathy's rating:

7.5

7.2

Dougal and the Blue Cat (1970)

Director: Serge Danot
Starring (voices): Eric Thompson and Fenella Fielding

Under the influence of the mysterious Madam Blue, Buxton the evil blue cat crowns himself king and sets up headquarters in the ruins of the old treacle factory, turning everything in the land blue, and capturing the Magic Roundabout gang, imprisoning them in caves below the factory.

The world's only hope is Dougal, who colours himself blue and enters the factory to do battle with Buxton...

kathy's rating:

2953

6.9

7.2

Dumbo (1941)

Directors: John Elliotte, Ben Sharpsteen, Bill Roberts, Jack Kinney, Wilfred Jackson, Norman Ferguson and Samuel Armstrong
Starring (voices): James Baskette, Herman Bing, Billy Bletcher, Edward Brophy, Jim Carmichael, Cliff Edwards, Verna Felton, Noreen Gammill, Eddie Holden, Sterling Holloway and John McLeish

Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.

kathy's rating:

7.7

5.9

Escapade in Japan (1957) (1957)

Director: Arthur Lubin
Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Teresa Wright, Jon Provost, Roger Nakagawa and Clint Eastwood

A plane on its way to Japan is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A small American boy survives the ditching but is separated from the rest of the passengers and crew and is picked up by a Japanese fisherman, who takes the boy back to his village.

The boy is befriended by the fisherman's son, but when they see Japanese police swarming over the village, they are afraid that they've done something wrong and run away, although the police are only searching for the missing boy.

Together the two boys travel through the Japanese countryside, trying to avoid the police who are searching for them and meeting up with many different kinds of people along the way.

kathy's rating:

147

6.4

Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

Director: John Hough
Starring: Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Walter Barnes, Reta Shaw and Denver Pyle

Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home?

kathy's rating:

239

6.9

6.8

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur O'Connell, William Redfield, Arthur Kennedy and Jean Del Val

A diplomat is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

kathy's rating:

312

6.4

6.3

Freaky Friday (1977)

Director: Gary Nelson
Starring: Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin and Patsy Kelly

A mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.

kathy's rating:

7.3

6.8

Gay Purr-ee (1962)

Director: Abe Levitow
Starring (voices): Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons, Paul Frees, Hermione Gingold and Mel Blanc

Mouser Jaune-Tom and housecat Mewsette are living in the French countryside but Mewsette wants to experience the refinement and excitement of the Paris living. However, upon arrival she falls into the clutches of Meowrice. Jaune-Tom and his friend Robespierre set off to Paris to find her.

kathy's rating:

149

7.2

6.8

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)

Director: Gordon Hessler
Starring: John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker and Douglas Wilmer

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map, accompanied by a slave girl with a mysterious tattoo of an eye on her palm. They encounter strange beasts, tempests and the dark interference of Koura along the way.

kathy's rating:

5.8

5.9

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

Directors: Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, George Cole and Reg Varney

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.

kathy's rating:

6.3

Greyfriars Bobby

Director: Don Chaffey
Starring: Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Alex Mackenzie, Andrew Cruickshank, Gordon Jackson, Rosalie Crutchley and Duncan Macrae

Scotland 1865. An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But, when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refusing to be adopted by anyone and sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars cemetary, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh and the Lord Provost to decide what's to be done.

kathy's rating:

7.5

6.4

Half a Sixpence

Director: George Sidney
Starring: Tommy Steele, Julia Foster, Cyril Ritchard and Penelope Horner

Arthur Kipps, an orphan apprenticed to a tyrannical owner of a mercantile, has a sudden abrupt change of life when his wealthy grandfather dies and leaves him a pile of money.

kathy's rating:

6.8

Hans Christian Andersen

Director: Charles Vidor
Starring: Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire and Joseph Walsh

A fictionalized account of the life of Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen.

kathy's rating:

7.3

7.5

The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)

Director: Frank Launder
Starring: Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull, Richard Wattis and Joyce Grenfell

Chaos ensues for staff and students alike when an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.

kathy's rating:

154

5.9

5.7

Herbie Rides Again (1974)

Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers and John McIntire

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

kathy's rating:

2886

6.9

7.3

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring (voices): Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, J. Pat O'Malley and Martha Wentworth

When the wicked Cruella De Vil and her henchmen kidnap dalmatian puppies for their cherished spotted fur, it is up to the puppies' parents, Pongo and Perdita, and some brave farm animals to free the caged canines.

kathy's rating:

118

6.9

7.1

The Incredible Journey (1963)

Director: Fletcher Markle
Starring: Émile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed and Sandra Scott

The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?

kathy's rating:

310

7.8

7.6

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Director: Jack Arnold
Based on the novel by Richard Matheson
Starring: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey and William Schallert

Scott Carey and his wife Louise are sunning themselves on their cabin cruiser, the small craft adrift on a calm sea. While his wife is below deck, a low mist passes over him. Scott, lying in the sun, is sprinkled with glittery particles that quickly evaporate. Later he is accidentally sprayed with an insecticide while driving and, in the next few days, he finds that he has begun to shrink. First just a few inches, so that his clothes no longer fit, then a little more. Soon he is only three feet tall and a national curiosity.

At six inches tall he can only live in a doll's house and even that becomes impossible when his cat breaks in. Scott flees to the cellar and his wife thinks he has been eaten by the cat. The door to the cellar is closed, trapping him in the littered room where, menaced by a giant spider, he struggles to survive.

kathy's rating:

The Island at the Top of the World (1974)

6.6

6.3

The Island at the Top of the World (1974)

Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: David Hartman, Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin and Mako

Four turn of the century explorers embark on an airship expedition to the high artic. Where upon they find a lost colony of Vikings.

kathy's rating:

374

7.3

Jason and the Argonauts

Director: Don Chaffey
Starring: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Michael Gwynn, Honor Blackman, Patrick Troughton and Nigel Green

The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.

kathy's rating:

6.9

6.3

Jack the Giant Killer (1962)

Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, Torin Thatcher and Walter Burke

A farmboy turned knight must protect a princess from the schemes of an evil wizard.

kathy's rating:

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

162

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Director: Henry Levin
Starring: James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl and Diane Baker

Professor Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the centre of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, encountering all manner of prehistoric monsters and life-threatening hazards on the way.

kathy's rating:

2954

6.9

7.6

The Jungle Book

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Story: Rudyard Kipling
Starring (voices): Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Bruce Reitherman, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, Louis Prima, J. Pat O'Malley, Verna Felton and Darleen Carr

Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.

kathy's rating:

393

7.9

Kes (1969)

Director: Ken Loach
Starring: David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes, Bernard Atha and Laurence Bould

Billy Casper an academic failure and eternal victim finds release and a sense of personal identity through training a kestrel. Committed to falconry in a way he'll never be to anything at school, Billy gets abuse from his classmates and malicious PE teacher, Mr. Sugden. Only buoyant Mr. Farthing shows any interest in Billy's extracurricular activities, as he discovers this apparently useless layabout is actually highly intelligent and dedicated.

kathy's rating:

6.9

6.7

King Solomon's Mines

Directors: Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton
Based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson and Hugo Haas

Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.

kathy's rating:

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